Baby’s spine ‘repaired’ in the womb

LONDON: An unborn baby in the UK has had a successful "foetal repair" surgery on her spine while she was still in her mother's womb.

Bethan Simpson, 26, from Essex, was told her unborn daughter Eloise had spina bifida, a birth defect in which a developing baby's spinal cord fails to develop properly, at her 20week scan.

Simpson has become one of the first mothers in the UK to undergo the pioneering "foetal repair" surgery.